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Calvin & Hobbes Quotes

Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius.

Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you?
Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

Well, it just seemed wrong to cheat on an ethics test.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!

The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.

Calvin: Know what I pray for?

Hobbes: What?
Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.

But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!

It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

If something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

As a math atheist, I should be excused from this.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

Is it a right to remain ignorant?

I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.

Miss Wormwood: What state do you live in?

Calvin: Denial.
Miss Wormwood: I don't suppose I can argue with that...

My life needs a rewind/erase button. Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

Susie: You'd get a good grade without doing any work.

Calvin: So?
Susie: It's wrong to get rewards you haven't earned.
Calvin: I've never heard of anyone who couldn't live with that.

If you couldn't find any weirdness, maybe we'll just have to make some!

I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.

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